Synonyms of origins

origins

noun

plural of origin

1

as in sources

a point or place at which something is invented or provided

the origins of human language remain a matter of considerable debate

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sources
• roots
• cradles
• beginnings
• fountains
• fonts
• springs
• wellsprings
• wells
• fountainheads
• geneses
• commencements
• inceptions
• seedbeds
• starts
• incipiencies
• outsets
• launches
• onsets
• thresholds
• incipiences
• day ones
• dawns
• nascencies
• baselines
• first bases
• kickoffs
• ground zeros
• nascences
• mornings
• get-goes
• square ones

2

as in roots

the source from which something grows or develops

the origin of the tradition of giving presents at Christmastime

Synonyms & Similar Words

• roots
• beginnings
• germs
• seed
• geneses
• originations
• starts
• fonts
• fountainheads
• seedbeds
• inceptions
• fountains
• springs
• wells
• wellsprings
• launches
• births
• commencements
• wellheads
• creations
• onsets
• thresholds
• dawns
• incipiencies
• outsets
• inaugurations
• mornings

3

as in lineages

the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended

they could trace their origins back 15 generations

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lineages
• ancestries
• pedigrees
• genealogies
• families
• descents
• bloodlines
• blood
• extractions
• strains
• births
• stocks
• breedings
• family trees
• lines
• parentages
• relations
• relatives
• successions
• races
• houses
• heredities
• kins
• kindreds

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• issues
• seed
• offspring
• progenies
• posterities
• sons
• children
• successors
• heirs
• inheritors

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of origins

However, the notion of the emperor’s divine origins strengthened during the Meiji era, when the concept of State Shinto arose. — ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026

Gittelsohn, a painter who attended the now-shuttered San Francisco Art Institute in the 1970s, located across the street from the couple’s home, reached out to about 50 scholars and art experts about the origins of the bust. — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026

In keeping with its origins in comic-book storytelling, where no absence is ever really permanent, X-Men ’97 has a flexible relationship with death. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2026

But its origins are rooted in endurance racing, and that’s where the CCGT1 reveals its full character as a true celebration of the original CCGT—with the roof panel on or off! — Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 13 Aug. 2026

The weight of the oxygen atoms, for example, would clarify their origins; the team would use that data, in combination with measures from other underground sites, to estimate the over-all amount of O2 available in the deep biosphere. — James Dinneen, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2026

Historical context and origins Before the rise of the Mongol empire, trade across Eurasia along the Silk Road network was frequently disrupted by warfare, political fragmentation, heavy taxation, and banditry. — Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Aug. 2026

Like Amazon, Airbnb, and many other startup breakthrough stories, Whatnot traces its origins back to a small rental home. — Sarah Glodek, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2026

Like his elder brother August, Ernest has a name that has German origins. — Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026